[arachne] Re: Data recovered from Columbia disaster -- because it used old DOS OS
- From: "Ray Andrews" <randrews@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 06:32:34 -0800
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On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:13:44 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> How lucky they were that someone thoughtfully optimized the disk before
> the crash - with the standard behaviour of DOS to allocate the next
> subsequent cluster, the data could have been spread all over the
> harddisk, too. And how lucky they were that the machine was running a
> truly ancient version of DOS because with FAT32, the root directory
> would not have been sitting conveniently right between FAT and data area
> but probably in the middle of the disk. ;-D
What I find interesting is that NASA, where money is no object, and where
only the most dependable systems are employed, was using DOS.
Regards,
Ray Andrews
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